Hailstorm!
 A sudden hailstorm – 15 minutes before this it was sunny and 73 degrees
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 The largest hailstones were about the size of a nickel
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We had a freak hailstorm yesterday, unlike any I’ve experienced before. I don’t think it measured up to the stories you’ve probably heard about baseball sized hail in the Midwest, but for the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, nickel-sized hail is very rare. By the time I grabbed the camera, the worst of it had passed, but the video should still give you a sense of it (not to mention a sense of my lovely garage, which I can’t wait to tear down). I’ve also never seen such a downpour – it usually takes a full day of steady rain to produce the kind of standing water in my yard that this storm generated in less than 10 minutes. What’s even stranger is that 15 minutes before the storm hit, it was sunny and 73 degrees.
The NBC Philadelphia site has a good slideshow of viewer-contributed photos.
So I can cross “major hailstorm” off my storm and natural disasters list, along with hurricanes, blizzards, and big earthquakes. So still to go is forest fire, tornado, flood, erupting volcano, and a rain of frogs.
thanks for this it helped me write a report on the possibility of such natural disasters happening like the ones in the movie day after tommorow